pemerintah
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Affixed peng- + perintah, from Malay pemerintah, from Classical Malay pemerintah.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pêmêrintah (first-person possessive pemerintahku, second-person possessive pemerintahmu, third-person possessive pemerintahnya)
- government (body with the power to make and/or enforce laws)
- manager
Synonyms edit
- kerajaan (“government”) (Brunei, Malaysia)
- pemerintah (“government”) (Singapore)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pemerintah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From pem- + perintah (“to govern”).
Noun edit
pemerintah (Jawi spelling ڤمرينته, plural pemerintah-pemerintah, informal 1st possessive pemerintahku, 2nd possessive pemerintahmu, 3rd possessive pemerintahnya)
- (Indonesia, Singapore) government (body with the power to make and/or enforce laws)
- Synonym: kerajaan
- ruler
- Synonym: penguasa
Descendants edit
- Indonesian: pemerintah
Adjective edit
pemerintah (Jawi spelling ڤمرينته)
Further reading edit
- “pemerintah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
- “pemerintah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.